Software Engineer

We founded Lever in 2012 to tackle the most strategic challenge that companies face: how to grow their teams. We're injecting the values we respect – collaboration, transparency, and humanity – into our software and re-imagining how organizations can think about growth, with talent and teamwork at the center.

Disproportionately impact a product-driven startup that is transforming the way companies grow their teams. We’re building next-generation collaboration software that helps companies to bring more transparency, participation, and engagement to their hiring.

Jump into an empowered role doing end-to-end feature development. You’ll be familiar with all parts of our stack—most notably our homegrown, open source web framework, DerbyJS. Not only will you learn how to develop on a modern, real-time framework, you’ll be building enterprise-grade software on top of it. To do so, you’ll exercise judgment in making tradeoffs between design and feasibility. Choose when to hack and when to invest. You’ll engineer your features to be scalable and resilient in a large, single-page app.

Lever is an incredibly design-driven company and you’ll be an active voice in shaping our product and user experience, down to the last detail when shipping your features. Our close-knit, cross-functional team is a great chance to grow your knowledge of different domains. Level-up your knowledge of design theory and UX by working closely with our Design and Customer Success teams. Share your knowledge with them so that they’re more empowered to hook up their front-end code to support users with more internal tools.

You’ll join a team where everyone—including you—is knowledgeable about development patterns and opinionated about product development process. We pitch in to help when things are crazy. We build tools and scripts to ease the lives of our fellow developers. And we’re passionate about lots of random things, and share those passions with each other.

Within 3 months, you’ll

• Build, launch, and support your first big feature
• Master Derby’s development patterns
• Participate in on-call rotation, diagnose, and resolve production issues
• Participate in support engineering rotation, understand and resolve customer issues
• Write internal documentation for your features and systems

Within 6 months, you’ll

• Own major feature areas of the application
• Touch most of our stack/infrastructure
• Be able to own the entire planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new features
• Contend for our bug hunt hackathon crown
• Participate in team-wide project estimation and scoping

Within 12 months, you’ll

• Build within reliable estimates
• Train and mentor your peers

• JavaScript
• Node.js
• MongoDB
• Redis, Solr
• Elasticsearch
• DerbyJS
• ShareJS
• IMAP
• SMTP
• Gmail and Google Calendar
• Microsoft Exchange
• AWS